3&#39;-hydroxyquinophthalone-5-carboxanilide

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WHEREIN R&#39;&#39; IS H OR C1-4 ALKYL.   (2-R&#39;&#39;-PHENYL)-N=N-(3-R&#39;&#39;-1,4-PHENYLENE)-   WHEREIN A AND B ARE THE SAME OR DIFFERENT AND ARE SELECTED FROM H, C1-4 ALKYL, C1 OR BR OR A AND B TOGETHER ARE -C=C-C=C-, AND R IS O-,M-OR P-(C8-18 ALKYL) PHENYL, O-M- OR P-(C4-12ALKOXY)CARBONYLPHENYL OR   2-(1,3-DI(O=),5-(R-NH-CO-)INDEN-2-YL),3-HO,A,B-QUINOLINE   YELLOW, WATER INSOLUBLE QUINOPHTHALONE DYES, USEFUL FOR DYEING COTTON OR SYNTHETIC FIBERS OR BLENDS OR MIXTURES THEREOF, HAVING THE FORMULA

United States Patent ABSTRACT-0F THE. DISCLOSURE Yellow, water insolublequinophthalone dyes, useful for dyeing cotton or synthetic fibers orblends or mixtures thereof, having the formula CONHR wherein A and B arethesame or different and are selected from H, C alkyl, C1 or Br or A andB together are C=CC=C-, and R is 0-, mor p-(C alkyl)phenyl, o-, mor p(Calkoxy) carbonylphenyl or wherein R is H or C alkyl.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION I (1) Field of the invention This inventionrelates to Water insoluble quinophthalone dyes which have utility in thedyeing of a broad spectrum of synthetic and natural materials,especially water swellable cellulosic materials, or mixtures or blendsof such synthetic and natural materials.

(2) Description of the prior art It is well known in the art thatsynthetic fibers, for example, fibers prepared from polyesters,polyamides or cellulose acetate, can be dyed with a wide variety ofdisperse dyes whose solubilities in water vary from very low tomoderately high.

Natural fibers. such as water swellable cellulosic fibers, especiallycotton, are dyed by processes, and with dyes, which usually diifermarkedly from the processes and dyes employed with synthetic fibers. Theconventional methods for dyeing water swellable cellulosic materials maybe summarized as follows;

(1) A high molecular weight water insoluble dye is formed within thematerial, either by reacting two smaller components, as in the formationof an azoic dye by a coupling reaction, or by a chemical reaction whichrenders insoluble a soluble dye precursor, as in vat and mordant dyeing.

,(2) Awater soluble preformed dye having an aflinityforthecellulosictmaterial is exhausted onto the material" from an aqueoussolution by aprocedure which involves reducing the solubility of thedyejin the aqueous solution, as with direct dyes.

3,770,746 Patented Nov. 6, 1973 "ice (3) A dye containing a substituentwhich reacts with the cellulose or a modified cellulose is exhaustedonto the material from either an aqueous or non-aqueous solution underconditions such that the dye is chemically bonded to the substrate, aswith fiber reactive dyes.

(4) Water insoluble pigments are bonded to the cellulose with polymericmaterials, as in pigment printing.

(5) A finely divided form of a water insoluble dye is incorporated intothe cellulose during a manufacturing step, as is sometimes done duringspinning of viscous rayon.

None of these conventional procedures can be used to dye cellulose bydirectly introducing into the material a preformed, nonreactive, waterinsoluble dye since such dyes have little natural affinity for orsubstantivity to cellulosic materials.

Representative of the aforesaid processes wherein dyes are formed insitu after a precursor is deposited on or within the cellulose areprocesses disclosed in US. Pats. 396,692 and 2,069,215 and British Pat.1,071,074. A process employing water soluble preformed dyes for dyeingcellulose is discussed in the Journal of the Society of Dyers andColourists, 73, 23 (1957).

The aforesaid processes sulfer from a variety of disadvantages, such ascomplexity of application, inability to achieve a broad spectrum ofcolors, and low fastness of the dyed cellulose to aqueous washing and/ordrycleaning with organic solvents.

The use of dyes of lower water solubility for dyeing cotton is disclosedin British Pat. 1,112,279. The process involves the application of dye,water and urea or a structurally related compound to the substrate,followed by heating. In such a process dye utilization frequently ispoor and undesirable basic degradation products from the urea or relatedcompound may be formed.

Problems in addition to the above are encountered in the use of priorart dyes and dyeing processes for blends or mixtures of water swellablecellulosic and synthetic materials. Generally, complex two-stageprocesses are required and the components of the blend or mixture aredyed in separate steps with different dyes. Crossstaining may result andthe amounts of dyes required usually are high, with each componentundesirably interfering with the dyeing of the other. Whencross-staining occurs, the dye must be capable of being scoured off thestained component. Even under optimum conditions, however, shade matchon both components of the blend is ditficult to achieve. The complexityof the two-stage process for dyeing blends also is apparent from aconsideration of the divergency of operatingconditions betweenconventional dyeing processes for water swellable cellulosic materialsand synthetic materials. In contrast to the aforesaid procedures fordyeing water swellable cellulose, the usual procedures for dyeingsynthetic materials are based on dissolution of water insoluble dyes inthe synthetic material.

Representative of prlor art on the dyeing of blends of such cellulosicand synthetic materials employing a twostage process is US. Pat.3,313,590. Analogous to the dyeing of such blends and confirming theaforesaid distinction between Water swellable. cellulosic materials andnonwater swellable cellulose acetate, US. Pat.- 3,153,563 dismaterialsby water has long been known. Swelling usually is rapid upon contactwith water, but it is facilitated by wetting agents and by heat. Theswollen materials are enlarged, more flexible, reduced in strength, andotherwise modified in physical and mechanical properties. Because oftheir open structure, swollen cellulosic materials can be penetrated byand reacted with low molecular weight water soluble compounds. Valko andLimdi in the Textile Research Journal, 32, 331-337 (1962) report thatcotton can be swollen with water containing both high boiling, watersoluble, non-reactive compounds of limited molecular weight and across-linking agent. The water can be removed with retention of swellingand crosslinking can then be effected. The authors suggest that thetechnique may be useful not only for the introduction into cotton ofWater soluble reactive materials (crosslinking agents) but also otherreactive materials which are insoluble in water but soluble in said highboiling, water soluble, nonreactive compound. A similar technique isdescribed in U.S. Pat. 2,339,913 issued Jan. 25, 1944 to Hanford andHolmes. The cellulosic is swollen with water, the water then is replacedwith methanol-benzene and finally with benzene, with retention ofswelling. A cellulose-reactive material (crosslinking agent) is added asa benzene solution and crosslinking is effected.

Blackwell, Gumprecht and Starn in Canadian Pat. 832,343 disclose aprocess for dyeing water swellable cellulosic materials with preformeddisperse dyes, that is, dyes which do not require an in situ chemicalreaction, such as oxidation or reduction, for development of color onthe substrate, such as a fabric, which process comprises contacting thewater swellable cellulosic material in any sequence with the'following:

(1) Water in an amount sufficient to swell the cellulose;

(2) A preformed dye in an amount suflicient to color the cellulose, aboiling saturated solution of which dye in 0.1 molar aqueous sodiumcarbonate exhibits an optical absorbance not in excess of about 30; and

(3) A solvent in an amount suflicient to maintain swelling of thecellulose if water is removed, and which (a) is at least 2.5 weightpercent soluble in water at (b) boils above about 150 C. at atmosphericpressure, (c) is a solvent for the dye at some temperature in the rangeof about to 225 C., and (d) has the formula R(O?HCH2)mR or[R(0-0H-cHg)m0],A

(lnHznq-r n 2n+1 wherein:

n is 0 or 1; m is a positive whole number; R is H, C alkyl, C aralkyl oralkaryl,

11 0-, R 8 02- or R20 c-, t t

wherein R is C alkyl, C cycloalykyl, C

aralkyl or alkaryl, C aryl, C aryl, or furfuryl;

NH(phenyl), or NI-Knaphthyl), wherein R is as defined above;

x is the number of unsatisfied valencies in A; and A is ROCH CHORCH CHCHORCH CH (CHOR) CH OR, CH (CHOR) CH orj 4 provided that at some stageduring the process the interior of the swollen cellulose is contactedwith a solution of the preformed dye in aqueous solvent or solvent.

Particular embodiments of the aforesaid process include those whereinsaid solution is formed within and/ or outside the swollen cellulose andthose wherein solution of dye in aqueous dye solvent or dye solvent isachieved by means of heat, by reducing the proportion of water to dyesolvent, or by adding an auxiliary solvent. Embodiments of the processalso include dyeing at elevated temperatures. Y a

Still other embodiments'of the aforesaid process include the dyeing ofblends or mixtures of cellulosic and synthetic materials, such aspolyamide or polyester, with the same dye. In such a'process thecellulose is dyed as described above and the synthetic material is dyedeither at the same time or in an independent step of the process.

OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the presentinvention to provide yellow water insoluble quinophthalone dyes whichare useful in the above-described process of Blackwell et al., fordyeing water swellable cellulosic materials and blends or mixturesthereof with synthetic materials. It is a further object to provide dyeswhich give a good balance of shade when used to dye the aforesaid blendsor mixtures. Another object is to provide water insoluble dyes whichexhibit good fastness to light, washing, crocking and sublimation whenapplied to water swellable cellulosic materials, synthetic materials orblends or mixtures of such cellulosic and synthetic materials. Stillanother object is to provide water insoluble dyes which are useful fordyeing synthetic materials by conventional procedures.

In summary, the present invention resides in the discovery of dyeshaving the formula wherein R is H or C alkyl. The preferred dye hereinis the above wherein A and B are H and R is p-dodecylphenyl.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The aforesaid yellowquinophthalone dyes of this invention are prepared by condensing aquinophthalone acid halide of the formula gq/ B' \C@ with an amine RNHIn the above Formulas A, B and R are as previously defined and X is C1or Br. The condensation is carried out using conventional condensationquantities and conditions. For example, the reactants can be heated in asuitable organic solvent such as chlorobenzene or o-dichlorobenzene. -Ifdesired an acid acceptor can be present, for example, a tertiary amineor sodium carbonate. J v

Suitable amines of the formula-RNH include those shown in Table 1.

. TABLE 1 o-Octylaniline p-Octadecylaniline m-Dodecylaniline Anthranilicacid, butyl ester m-Aminobenzoic acid, octyl ester p-Aminobenzoic acid,dodecyl ester p- (Phenylazo) aniline 4-(o-tolylazo)-2-toluidine4-(o-n-butylphenylazo)-2-n-butylaniline The quinophthalone acid halidecan be prepared by well known prior art techniques. The followingdescription represents but one example of such known procedures. Anisatin appropriately substituted with the aforesaid groups A and B isreacted with chloroacetone in the presence of calcium hydroxide to yieldthe substituted 3- hydroxy-2-methyl-4-quinolinecarboxylic acid. The acidis condensed with trimellitic acid or trimellitic acid or tri melliticanhydride by heating in an inert solvent such as o-dichlorobenzene toyield the substituted quinophthalone- 5-carboxylic acid. This acid isreacted with thionyl chloride or bromide by heating in an inert solventsuch as nitrobenzene to yield the desired quinophthalone acid halide ofthe above formula.

Suitable isatins which are useful herein include those shown in Table 2.

TABLE 2 5-phenylisatin 6-phenylisatin 4,5 -benzoisatin 5,7-dichlorisatin5,7-dibromoisatin The cellulosic materials which can be dyed with thedyes of this invention by the previously described Blackwell et a1.process include all forms of cellulose which increase in size and inflexibility upon exposure to water. Suitable materials include naturalfibers and purified wood pulp-s as well as reconstituted cellulose infiber and film form. Cotton fibers can be dyed in any of the forms inwhich they are conventionally used in textile materials and after any ofthe treatments conventionally used to prepare them for dyeing. Alsoinclude is cotton which has been treated in any way which does notsignificantly reduce its swelling upon heating with water; raw orscoured cotton and cotton which has been mercerized or otherwisepreshrunk are dyeable with the dyes of this invention. Reconstitutedcellulosic fibers which are sufiiciently open in structure so that theyare swollen by water and penetrated 'by a dye solvent are dyeable, forexample, cuprammonium rayon. Xanthate viscose rayon normally has astructure which is more difiicult to swell and may require exposure todye, water, and dye solvent for somewhat longer times at lowertemperatures. To facilitate dyeing, such fabrics can be pretreated withdilute aqueous caustic or the dyeing can be carried out in the presenceof wetting agents, preferably of the nonionic type. Mixtures of cottonand rayon fibers can be dyed, and the present dyes also can be used todye purified wood pulp and paper. Excluded herein as the water swellablecellulosic material is cellulose acetate which does not exhibit therequisite swellability in the presence of water.

The synthetic materials which can be dyed with the dyes of thisinvention include polyesters, polyamides, cellulose ethers and esters,and copolymers and mixtures thereof with other components intended tomake them more easily dyeable or to add other desirable properties. Thedyes can be applied to synthetic materials by conventional procedures,such as the Thermosol or aqueous dyeing procedures. They also may beapplied to such materials from solution in an organic solvent.Halocarbons such as perchloroethylene are particularly suitable solventsfor this purpose since their low specific heats and latent heats ofvaporization and low boiling points result in (a) a low powerrequirement to raise the dyebath temperature to and maintain it at theboil, and (b) ease of recovery of the solvent. Other advantages of thechlorinated solvents, such as nonflammability, low toxicity, and thelike are readily apparent.

Surprisingly, the utility of the dyes of this invention in the solventdyeing of polyester from perchloroethylene is not shared by the isomericN-alkylanilino dyes.

The dyes of this invention can be applied to water swellable cellulosicmaterials, or to blends or mixtures thereof with synthetic materials bythe above-described Blackwell et al. process. The dyes of this inventionare particularly useful for dyeing mixtures and blends of cotton andpolyester or polyamide, such as mixtures containing 50 to 80%polyethylene terephthalate and 20 to 50% cotton. In such mixtures, thesynthetic material is dyed using conventional process conditions. Sincethe dyes of this invention can be used to dye both components in a blendor mixture, scourability as a factor in dye selection is avoided sincethe previously described cross-staining problem has been minimized.

The dyes of this invention dye the substrate directly, that is, they donot required oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, or any other chemicalmodification for development of color or fastness. The dyes exhibitexcellent fastness to light, crocking, washing, sublimation anddrycleaning.

In dyeing cellulosic materials with the dyes of this invention using theBlackwell et a1. process, water, dye, and dye solvent can be applied tothe substrate in any sequence as long as Water and dye solvent aresimultaneously present at some stage which is either before orsimultaneous with actual dyeing. The preferred method for dyeing fabricscomposed of cellulosic fibers or mixtures of cellulosic and syntheticfibers is to impregnate the fabric with a mixture of one or more dyes,Water, and dye solvent in a conventional dye p'ad bath followed bysqueezing to remove excess dye liquor, or to print with asolvent-containing printing paste, and subsequently heating to evaporatesufficient water to effect diisolution of the dye, at which time thefabric is dyed. Alternatively, water is evaporated, but in aninsufficient amount to effect dissolution of the dye, after whichpressure and heat are applied to effect dissolution without furtherevaporation of water. Dye pastes can be prepared by conventionaltechniques such as by milling the dye in the presence of a dispersingagent or surfactant. A dyebath can be prepared by diluting the dye pastewith Water or with aqeuous solvent. Addition of a solvent to the dyepaste before addition of Water may cause dye separation and usually isavoided. It will be understood by those skilled in the art thatadditives other than a dye solvent and a dispersing agent can be presentin dye baths. Such additives frequently include migration inhibitorssuch as purified vegetable gums and wetting agents, examples of whichare ionic and nonionic surfactants such as ethylene oxide condensationproducts, hydrocarbon sulfonates and long-chain alcohol sulfates. Dyebaths used in practicing this invention also can contain dyes other thanthose of this invention; for example, direct dyes or fiber reactive dyesfor cotton or for polyamides can be present for shading purposes.

In the preferred dyeing procedure with the dyes of this invention, anaqueous dye dispersion and the organic solvent are applied to the fabricfrom a single padbath. The

amount of water in the padbath usually is -95% Weight (A) A padbath wasprepared from:

Grams An aqueous yellow dye paste active ingredient) containing the dyeof Example 1 50 Purified vegetable gum thickener Methoxypolyethyleneglycol (molecular weight 350) 100 Water to 1 liter.

A continuous length of 65/35 Dacron polyester/cotton fabric was paddedat 60% uptake, based on the weight of the fiber, and the padded fabricwas passed at a rate of 2 yards per minute between two 1,000 wattinfrared lamps (Fostoria-Fannon, Inc., Infrared Heater Model 6624), witheach lamp shining on opposite surfaces of the fabric from a distance ofabout 3 inches. The continuously moving fabric was passed through acirculating air oven at 80-l00 C., with a hold-up time of one minute,and then through an oven at 200210 C. with a hold-up time of 1.7minutes. The hot, dry fabric was cooled to room temperature and rinsedfor one minute each in sequence: in water at 2030 C., in water at 9095C., at 9095 C. in water containing 1% of an ether-alcohol sulfateddetergent, in water at 90-95 C., and in water at 2030 C. The materialwas dried and then scoured for 5 minutes in prechloroethylene at 50 C.Uniform deep yellow shades of good fastness were produced.

(B) Experiment A was repeated except that the heating was carried out asfollows. The padded fabric was passed at a rate of 2 yards per minutebetween banks of infrared lamps, with one 1,000 watt lamp(Fostoria-Fannon, Inc., Infrared Heater Model 6624) shining on eachsurface perpendicular to the fabric from a distance of about 3 inches.The moist fabric was then passed over a series of four revolvingsmooth-surface drums increasing stepwise in temperature from 100 C. toabout 150 C. The average contact time on each drum was about 18 seconds.Next, the fabric moved continuously into an oven held at about 210 C.where the total contact time was about 90 seconds.

(C) Experiment A was repeated except that the dye of Example 2 wasemployed. The polyester-cotton blend fabric was uniformly dyed a deepyellow shade of good fastness.

(D) Experiment C was repeated except that the heating was carried out asin Experiment B.

Dyeing cotton broadcloth Printing of 100% cotton fabric (G) A cottonfabric was padded to about 70% pickup with an aqueous solutioncontaining 200 grams per liter of polyethylene glycol (M.W. 600). Thepadded fabric was heated at 160 C. for 5 minutes to evaporate water. Thefabric was then printed in a pattern with a print paste prepared from:

Grams An aqueous yellow paste 15 active ingredient) containing the dyeof Example 3 10 Purified natural gum ether thickener 60 Water 30 Theprinted fabric was heated at 180 C. for 100 seconds, scoured in Watercontaining an ether-alcohol sulfate detergent at about 90 C. for 5minutes, dried, scoured in tetrachloroethylene at about 50 C. for 5minutes and dried. The printed areas: were strongly dyed in a yellowshade.

Printing of 65/35 Dacron polyester/ cotton blend fabric (H)Experiment'G'wa's repeated except that a 65/35 Dacron polyester/cottonfabric was employed and the maximum temperature was incorporated to 200C.

Dyeing of Dacron polyester 7 Grams An aqueous yellow dye paste (15%active ingredient) containing the dye of Example 1 50 Purified naturalgum thickener 20 Water to 1 liter.

The padded material was passed through an infrared predryer, then heatedto and held at 415 F. for 90 seconds. The fabric was rinsed in water atF., scoured for 5 minutes at 200 F. in water containing 1% etheralcoholsulfate detergent, rinsed in water at 80 F. and dried. The polyesterfabric was dyed a deep yellow shade.

Fabric samples from Experiments A and C were evaluated for fastnessusing standard tests described in Textile Manual of American Associationof Textile Chemists and Colorists, vol. 45, 1969. The results arereported in Table 3. The first three columns show the shade change ofthe dyed fabric, the next two show the degree of stain on an undyedacetate or nylon fabric, and the last shows the sublimation into theundyed polyester/cotton fabric. The ratings are expressed with thefollowing symbols:

5=negligible shade change 4=slight shade change 3=noticeable shadechange 2=considerable shade change 1=n1uch shade change W=weakerBr=brighter TABLE 3 Washfastness (AATCC Surprisingly, it has been foundthat certain colored dispersing agents, such as Marasperse B or Polyfon0 (both lignin sulfonates), can be employed to impart a brown stain tocotton or polyester-cotton blends by the procedures described above,which stains cannot be removed completely during the scouring procedure.These stains, however, have poor fastness to light. If the yellow dyesof this invention are dispersed in the presence of such dispersingagents and the aqueous dye pastes are then dyed or printed onto cottonor cotton blend fabrics, the shade of the dyed material appears to growgradually brighter on exposure to light in a Xenon Arc Fade- Ometer asthe stain from the dispersant is destroyed. In contrast, dye pastes thatcontain essentially colorless dispersing agents, such as Blancol (asulfonated napthaleneformaldehyde condensate), give bright shades thatshow virtually no change after 40 hours in a Xenon Arc Fade-Ometer. Forexample, Table 4 shows the results obtained when two samples of the dyeof Example 5 were dispersed .to aqueous pastes in (a) Polyfon O,and (b)fBlancolf?respectively, and dyed onto 65/35. polyestercotton blendfabri'c'by the method of .Experiment'A' above.

TABLE 4 Light-lastuess (Xenon Arc Fade-Ometer) Dye 20 hours 40 hours 1 61 "Pl O 3B1 3B1 Examp e p us yfon 5 H Br Example 5 plus Blancol As ameasure of which dispersing agents are acceptable and which areunacceptable for use as dispersants for the subject dyes, the RelativeColor Value (RCV) of several dispersants can be determined as follows:

RCV= 100 (A absorbance at 380 millimicrons (m concentraton in grams perliter The absorbance of several dispersing agents at 380 m (the visuallimit at the blue end of the spectrum) was measured spectroscopicallyand the RCV of each calculated. Marasperse B with an RCV of 100 isconsidered to be borderline; this figure is taken as the maximumacceptable value. Polyfon O with an RCV of 283.3 is well above theacceptable maximum. In contrast, Blancol with an RCV of 2.2 is wellbelow the acceptable maximum.

Other common dispersing agents which are acceptable are listed in Table5.

' 7 TABLE 5 Relative color value of dispersing agents Relative colorDispersing agent: value (RCV) Solvent dyeing of polyester fibers (I) AS-gram swatch of fabric made from polyethylene terephthalate was heatedto the boil for 1 hour in 400 grams of perchloroethylene containing 0.1gram of the dye of Example 1. A deep yellow shade was produced on thepolyester fabric.

. The experiment was repeated using in place of the dye of Example 1 0.1grams of the iomeric N-octylanilino dye (prepared by the procedure ofExample 1 exceptthat 41, parts of p-octylaniline were replaced by 41parts of N-octylaniline). Onlya slight stain was produced when anattempt was made to dye the polyester fabric.

Dyeing 65/35 nylon/ cotton blend fabric (K) A padbath was prepared from:

Grams An aqueous yellow dye paste (15% active ingredient containing thedye of Example 2 50 Purified vegetable gum thickener 20 Dipropyleneglycol 200 Water to 1 liter.

A continuous length of 65/35 nylon/cotton fabric was padded at 60%uptake, based on the weight of the fiber, and the padded fabric waspassed at a rate of 2 yards per minute between two 1,000 watt infraredlamps (Fostoria- Fannon, Inc., InfraredHeater Model 6624), with eachlamp shining on opposite surfaces of the fabric from a distance of about3 inches. The continuously moving fabric was passed through acirculating air oven at C., with a hold-up time of one minute, and thenthrough an oven at 180-190 C. with a hold-up time of 1.7 minutes. Thehot, dry fabric was cooled to room temperature and rinsed for one minuteeach in sequence: In Perchloroethylene at 50 C., in water at 20-30 C.,in water at 90-95 C., at 90-95 C. in water containing 1% of anether-alcohol sulfate detergent, in water at 90-95 C., and in water at20-30 C. The material was dried and subjected to a permanent-pressprocedure as follows. An aqueous padbath was made from:

Water to 1 liter.

Permafresh 183 is an imidazolidone derivative which serves as thereactant for wash-wear garments by the deferred curing process; TritonX-lOO is an alkylarylpolyether alcohol which serves as a wetting andemulsifying agent; Rhoplex HA-8 is an acrylic dispersion of athermoplastic resin which serves as a binder; Catalyst X- 4 is a curingcatalyst for thermosetting resins (it contains a zinc salt complex);Mykon SF is a nonionic, paraffinfree, polyethylene emulsion which servesas a fabric softener; and Silkand 40 is a nonionic polymer emulsionwhich imparts luster, a silky hand and antistatic properties to thefabric.

The resin-impregnated material was air dried and cured at 325 F. for 15minutes.

Table 6 shows the results of fastness tests which were run on theuniformly dyed yellow material.

The following examples illustrate the preparations of dyes of thisinvention. All parts are given by weight.

EXAMPLE 1 Preparation of3'-hydroxyquinophthalone-5-carboxyp-octylanidile A mixture of 32.5 partsof 3'-hydroxyquinophthalone- S-carboxylic acid and 350 parts ofmonochlorobenzene was treated at room temperature with 2.1 parts ofdimethylformamide and then with 21 parts of thionyl chloride. Thereaction mixture was heated to 80-85 C. for 8 hours and .then allowed tocool to room temperature overnight. 15 parts of sodium carbonate werethen added and the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes. 41 parts ofp-octylaniline were added and the reaction mixture was heated to 70-80C. for 3 hours, and then to C. for 3 .hours. The reaction mixture wasallowed to cool to room temperature overnight. The product was isolatedby filtration, washed three times with monochlorobenzene, then withisopropanol, and finally with water. The cake was reslurried in 1N-sodium carbonate solution, isolated by filtration, Washed with Wateruntil alkali-free, and

" dried. 18 parts of dye were obtained; the product melted partially atl94-2l4 C., but mostly at 260265 C., and had an absorptivity of 58.0liters gramcmr at 443 m Thin layer chromatography on silica gel-coatedglass plates, using benzene:ethyl acetate=3:2 as eluent, indicated nostarting material in the yellow dye. Found: C,

C, 76.15; H, 6.15;'N, 5.38. V g 7 Based'on the'above, the structurueofthe dye is EXAMPLE 2 Preparation of3'-hydroxyquinophthalone-S-carbox-pdodecylanilide A mixture of 275 partsof chlorobenzene and 25 parts of 3-hydroxyquinophthalone-S-carboxylicacid was heated with stirring to 50 C. and treated with 1.1 parts ofdimethylformamide and then with 16 parts of thionyl chloride (addeddropwise). The reaction mixture was stirred at 81-85 C. for 8 hours,after which the excess thionyl chloride was removed by sweeping thesystem with nitrogen. The reaction mixture was cooled to 40 C. and 76parts of p-dodecylaniline were added. The mixture was heated to thereflux temperature. The product was isolated by filtration, washedthoroughly with ethanol, then with hot water, and dried. 21 parts ofproduct were obtained; the product melted at 184-185 C. and had anabsorptivity of 87.4 liters gramcm.- at 440 m,u. Thin layerchromatography indicated one colored component only. Based on the above,the yellow dye has the structure.

EXAMPLE 3 Preparation of3'-hydroxyquinophthalone-5-carboxp-octadecylanilide When 76 parts ofp-dodecylaniline were replaced by 132 parts of p-octadecylaniline in theprocedure of Example 2, a chromatographically pure dye was obtainedhaving the same shade and fastness properties on cotton-polyester blendfabric as the dye of Example 2. Based on the above, the yellow dye hasthe structure EXAMPLE 4 Preparation of3'-hydroxy-5,6'-benzoquinophthalone- 5-carbox-p-dodecylanilide ONH-n-Can error- 6 It was redder inshade than the dye pf Example 2. Cotton andpolyester-fibers were'dyed in yellow shades 'of good -fastness withthis'dye by thefmelthodsdescribed'in Experiments A to I.

EXAMPLE 5 ride with 4-(o-tolylazo)-2-toluidine A stirred mixture of 52.5parts of 3-hydroxyquinophthalone-5-carbonyl chloride; 36 parts' f4-(6-fcs1y1aze) 2-toluidine, 15 parts of sodium carbonate and, 1100parts of chlorobenzene was heated to 9298 "C;'for 30 minutes. Themixture was then heated to the reflux temperature for 4% hours and thenallowed to cool to room temper-a1 ture with stirring overnight. Theproduct was isolated by filtration and washed insequencewith benzene,ethanol, hot 1 N-sodium carbonate solution and boiling water. The lasttwo washes were continued until the washings were clear. Weight of drieddye was 15 parts 'lhe dye was shown by thin layer chromatographyxto befree of colored impurities; it exhibited an absorption maximum at 440 mBased on the above, the dye has the structure /35 polyester-cotton blendfabric was union-dyed in yellow shades with this dye; the fastnessproperties were equivalent to those of the dye of Example 1.

EXAMPLE 6 Reaction of 3'-hydroxyquinophthalone-S-carbonyl chloride withp-(phenylazo)aniline When 36 parts of ,4-(o-tolylazo)-2-toluidine in theprocedure of Example 5 were replaced by 31.5 parts of p-(phenylazo)aniline, a dye was obtained of similar shade and equivalentfastness properties on 65/ 35 polyester-cotton blend fabric. Based ontheabove, the dye has the structure EXAMPLE 7 Reaction of3'-hydroxyquinophthalonea5-carbonyl chloride with octyl anthranilate Amixture of 65.4 parts of 3'-hydroxyquinophthalone 5-carbonyl chloride,67 parts of octyl anthranilate, 24.2 parts of N,N-diethylaniline and 950parts of monochlorobenzene was heated to the reflux temperature withstirring for 1% hours. The reaction mixture was allowed to cool to 80 C;and 500 parts of ethanol were added to precipitate the dye. When thereaction mixture hadcooled to room temperature, the product was isolatedby filtration, recrystallized twice from a dim'e thylformamide-watersystem and dried. The yellowdye which was chromatographically pure had amelting point of -166 C.; yield was 77 parts. Based on the above, thedye has th structure 7 p O C/ CONHR B \0 wherein A and B are adjacentand are the same or different and are selected from H, C alkyl (but notadjacent t-butyl) C1 or Br or A and B together are 14 2. The dye ofclaim 1 having the formula References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 153,023,213 2/1962 Richter 260-287 3,374,238 3/1968 Wick 260--287 DONALDG. DAUS, Examiner US. Cl. X.R.

mg? "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No.3,77 ,7 Dated Nov. 6, 197} hunger) I John Blackwell and Richard A.Fenoglio It is certified that error appearu in the above-identifiedpatent and that aaid'Lettera Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

r Column 13, lines 17, 18 and 19 should read wherein A and B are thesame or different and are selected from H, Cl)4 alkyl (but not adjacentt-butyl), 01 or Br or A and B are adjacent and together are line 22,insert a period at the end of the claim.

Signeid'iand sealed this 16th day of Jul "1971?.

(SEAL) Attest;

McCOY M. GIBSON,JR. .Attesting Officer 0,. MARSHALL DANN Commissioner ofPatents

